reading a line from ifstream into a string variable
In the following code : #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { string x = "This is C++."; ofstream of("d:/tester.txt"); of << x; of.close(); ifstream read("d:/tester.txt"); read >> x; cout << x << endl ; } Output : This Since >> operator reads upto the first whitespace i get this output. How can i extract the line back into the string ? I know this form of istream& getline (char* s, streamsize n ); but i want to store it in a string variable. How can i do this ? jonsca Use the std::getline() from <string> . istream & getline(istream & is,std: